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,Introducing the Jewish–Comics Connection,comics is read critically as heritage fabrication. Finally, it discusses how popular “Judeocentric” readings are being uncritically reproduced in academia. This forms the basis for a call to reconsider current practices in academic writing about Jews and comics, of which this book is offered as an example.

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2945-7777 he United States.Draws attention to the imprecision and incoIn this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, L

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,Introducing the Jewish–Comics Connection, of its sources and problems. It looks first at how the novel . has become an authoritative historical source in this process. Next, it problematizes two common claims about Superman: that his alien name, Kal-El, is of Hebrew origin, and that he is a golem. After this, recent writing about Jews and

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,The Jewish–Comics Connection Reconsidered,ntext in which the original Superman comics were created differs from the one commonly presented in the literature. It presents a capsule history of the changing role of Jewish American participation and representation in US superhero comics. It then presents a brief review of relevant Jewish Americ

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And So Begins a Startling Adventure,lings of his origin story. These comic stories are juxtaposed with recent claims that Superman should be regarded as an immigrant, a Moses figure, and a refugee from Nazism. Each of these Judeocentric readings is shown to be problematic and to have unintended, and sometimes troubling, consequences,

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Superman, Champion of the Oppressed,) and shows how this is historically impossible. Instead, the argument situates Superman as a deeply convinced New Dealer, who kept up his efforts long after the New Deal lost steam. It does so by situating Superman’s activism within a broader Jewish American, and a more narrowly biographical, conte

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